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Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,–I mean good-nature,–are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.

John Dryden

The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Death Man Thinking Virtue
Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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Fake King Necessary Ruin True
Faith is to believe what you do not yet see: the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Believe Faith Grace Reward See Strength
Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch.
JOHN DRYDEN

Eyes Feeling Ourselves Soul Tender Togetherness Touch
Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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Performance Quick Slow
Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
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Goodness Happiness Instrument Laughter Man Rate
Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
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Greatness Treason Trust
Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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Friendship Tears
Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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Fools One Liner Patriot
The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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Himself Man Son Treat
While I am compassed round With mirth, my soul lies hid in shades of grief, Whence, like the bird of night, with half-shut eyes, She peeps, and sickens at the sight of day.
JOHN DRYDEN

Day Eyes Round Shade Sight Soul
Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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Courage Mindset Presence Success
None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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Busy Fools
For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Art Miss Mistake Nature
Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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Bold Goodness Starve
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
JOHN DRYDEN

Care Destroy Happiness Man Thinking

Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,–I mean good-nature,–are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.

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Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,–I mean good-nature,–are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.

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